Movie: Princess from the Moon
Romaji: Taketori monogatari
Japanese: 竹取物語
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Writer: Kon Ichikawa, Shinya Hidaka, Mitsutoshi Ishigami, Ryûzô Kikushima
Producer: Masaichi Nagata
Cinematographer: Setsuo Kobayashi
Release Date: September 14, 1987 (US), September 26, 1987 (Japan)
Runtime: 121 minutes
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the original tale, though, in which the girl was a fairy from the moon and was finally taken home.
Cast
Toshiro Mifune as Taketori-no-Miyatsuko
Ayako Wakao as Tayoshime
Yasuko Sawaguchi as Kaya, the Princess Kaguya
Koji Ishizaka as Mikado
Kiichi Nakai as Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military
Megumi Odaka as Akeno
Katsuo Nakamura as Lise
Takeshi Katō as Fujiwara-no-Okuni
Kyoko Kishida as Kougo
Jun Hamamura as Sakanoue-no-Dajo-Daijin
Koasa Shunpitei as Kuramochi-no-Miko or Minister of Culture
Takatoshi Takeda as Abe-no-Udaijin or Minister of Finance
Shiro Ito as Sojo-no-Doson
Fujio Tokita as Shonin-no-Uda
Hirokazu Yamaguchi as Metal Carver
Gen Idemitsu as Mura-no-Choja
Michiyo Yokoyama as Lise's Wife
Hirokazu Inoue as Ono-no-Fusamori
Miho Nakano as Kaya